"Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (franchise) Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a Disney comedy franchise that consisted of two theatrical films, one direct-to-video film, a , a 3D theme park attraction, and a . It focuses on Wayne Szalinski, an eccentric inventor who develops electronic machines that cause havoc. The original film, ""Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"", was released in 1989 by Walt Disney Pictures. Written by Stuart Gordon, Ed Naha, Brian Yuzna, and Tom Schulman, it has been one of Disney's most successful franchises. Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis) is an eccentric professor who makes a living by inventing"
"shows one of Wayne's inventions, a machine that translates dog barks to human speech. It is similar to the devices in the ""invention exchange"" Hodgson did when with ""Mystery Science Theater 3000"". Rick Moranis is the only returning cast member from the original films. He returns to portray inventor Wayne Szalinski, now the head of Szalinski Labs. Marcia Strassman, who portrayed Diane in the first two films and in the 3D film would not reprise her role anymore. Eve Gordon, who was best known as Marilyn Monroe in ""A Woman Named Jackie"", was cast as Diane instead. The onscreen kids,"
"1992 and the direct-to-video ""Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves"" in 1997, which both received mixed critical reception, as well as leading to the creation of a that ran from 1997 to 2000. Scientist and inventor Wayne Szalinski lives in his suburban home attempting to perfect a ray gun capable of shrinking objects, but it keeps blowing up the apples he uses as test subjects instead. After an argument between him and his wife, Diane, she spent the previous night with her mother and is currently at work, worrying their daughter, Amy, and son, Nick, who has inherited Wayne's inventive ingenuity and"
"also Disney's first live-action film to get a direct-to-video release. Eight years after the events of the previous film, ten-year-old Adam just wants to be a normal boy and go to baseball camp. However, his interest in sports seems almost alien to Wayne and Diane, as Amy and Nick, who are currently living away from home, were a thespian and genius, respectively. Wayne has started his own lab, Szalinski Labs, with his brother, Gordon, and they receive tickets to witness a shuttle landing, but Diane interrupts Wayne's message, reminding him that he needs to watch Adam and his cousins, Jenny"
"wacky inventor played by Rick Moranis in the original film. Each episode incorporates new technologies and digital effects to feature the family in various new adventures. The series was filmed in Calgary, Alberta, with its main studios located in Currie Barracks, a decommissioned Canadian Forces dormitory. The Szalinski family are the only returning characters from the films. Wayne Szalinski (Peter Scolari), the show's protagonist, is the husband of Diane and the father of Amy and Nick. The well-meaning Wayne constructs a variety of inventions, including the Shrink-Ray, Neuron Nudger and Brainiactivator among others, that often create predicaments for his family."
"1997, called """". Four years after inventor Wayne Szalinski accidentally shrunk his and his next door neighbor's kids, his family have moved to Nevada and have welcomed a new son, mischievous two-year old Adam. Wayne's wife, Diane, leaves on a Friday with their daughter, Amy, to move her to her dorm at college, leaving Wayne to look after Adam and their teenage son, Nick, who struggles with puberty. He develops a crush on Mandy Park, who Wayne later arranges to babysit Adam. The next day, Saturday, Wayne takes Nick and Adam to Sterling Labs, where he has constructed an advanced"
"and Oliveri reprising their roles as Wayne, Diane, Amy and Nick Szalinski. As the title suggests, Wayne succeeds in enlarging his two-year-old son, Adam, to gigantic proportions as one of his size-changing experiments goes awry. A three-dimensional film called ""Honey, I Shrunk the Audience"" complete with physical effects such as wind and water was created as an attraction at Walt Disney World's Epcot in 1994, and later Disneyland, Tokyo Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris. It is a mock award show by ""The Imagination Institute"" that is intended to honor Wayne as ""Inventor of the Year"". Instead, the audience is ""shrunk"" and"
"portrayed by Eve Gordon, and their youngest son, Adam, now a preteen, is played by Bug Hall. Amy and Nick have gone away to college (as discussed between Diane and Adam in the film). It includes Wayne's extended family, including his brother, Gordon, and sister-in-law, Patti. Unlike the first film, where the kids had to get their parents' attention, it's vice versa. Only a few months after the film was released, the Disney Channel picked up a show based on the Szalinskis' troubles: """". It starred Peter Scolari as Wayne. This was the last incarnation of the franchise; this is"
"His wife, Diane Szalinski (Barbara Alyn Woods), is a lawyer. Diane supports Wayne and is very loving, but gets fed up with his antics. The family have a dog, Quark, who is played by Matese in the first season, but by Rusty in seasons two and three. Amy Szalinski (Hillary Tuck) is the oldest child of Wayne and Diane. She displays the normal teenage angst, but loves her family no matter what. Her younger brother, Nick (Thomas Dekker), is very much like Wayne and also enjoys inventing things. However, unlike his father, he believes in and has an extensive knowledge"
"was one of the first Disney films to be colorized (for the 1986 video release), and, along with 1959's ""The Shaggy Dog"" and 1963's ""Son of Flubber"", it is one of Disney's few black-and-white films to be produced after 1941. Professor Brainard (Fred MacMurray) (pronounced BRAY-nard) is an absent-minded professor of physical chemistry at Medfield College who invents a substance that gains energy when it strikes a hard surface. This discovery follows some blackboard scribbling in which he reverses a sign in the equation for enthalpy to energy plus pressure times volume. Brainard names his discovery ""Flubber"", which is a"
"gone off to college and Quark's disappearance never being explained. Many new characters were added such as Wayne's brother, Gordon, and his family. This time, the parents are shrunk and need to be rescued by their kids. The last incarnation of the franchise was the television program """". Peter Scolari took over as Wayne and Nick and Amy both returned as characters, roughly the same age as in the original film, and played by new actors. Its plots involved other wacky Szalinski inventions (rarely the shrinking machine) that do not work quite as expected and land the family in some"
"later for the 3D science fiction film, ""Honey, I Shrunk the Audience"", that opened at Epcot in 1994 and closed in 2010. It was later added to Disneyland's Tomorrowland section in California, but it closed in 2010 there, too. Robert Oliveri Robert Dane Oliveri (born April 28, 1978) is a former American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Nick Szalinski in the 1989 Disney film, ""Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"", for which he was nominated for a Young Artist Award and a Saturn Award. He reprised the role in the 1992 sequel, ""Honey, I Blew Up the"
"type of humorous mixed-up adventure. In February 2018, ""The Hollywood Reporter"" revealed that remakes of several films are in development as exclusive content for Walt Disney Studios' upcoming streaming service; with one of those named in the announcement being this one. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 American comic science fiction film. The directorial debut of Joe Johnston and produced by Walt Disney Pictures, it tells the story of an inventor who accidentally shrinks his and his next door neighbor's kids to a quarter of an inch with his electromagnetic shrinking machine and"
"California Berkeley, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, and University of Chicago to observe space at centimeter and millimeter wavelengths with a 23-element interferometer. CARMA used this interferometer to study the origins of planets, stars and galaxies, as well as to measure the distortions in the cosmic microwave background caused by clusters of galaxies formed soon after the Big Bang. In the film ""The Arrival"" (1996), Zane Zaminsky (Charlie Sheen) and Calvin (Richard Schiff) work at Owens Valley for the SETI Project and discover an alien signal. (It's actually called the ""Oro Valley Radio Observatory"" in the movie. There is"
"the setting of several live-action Disney films. The queue for the attraction passes the ""offices"" of Professor Brainard (Fred MacMurray's role in ""The Absent-Minded Professor"" (1961), although the queue addressed the 1997 remake when the role was played by Robin Williams), Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis in the ""Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"" trilogy) and Dean Higgins (Joe Flynn's role in the ""Dexter Riley"" films). The ride includes a view of a glass-fronted computer room, with a sign on the door indicating ""no tennis shoes allowed,"" a reference to ""The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes"" (1969), the first Dexter Riley film. A"
"enormous size. It is set three years after the events depicted in the first film. It was filmed in 1991. The antagonist to the Szalinskis is Wayne's coworker, Dr. Charles Hendrickson (John Shea), who wants the giant Adam stopped at all costs and would like to take over Wayne's invention that is now owned by the major corporation they work for, which is in turn owned by the kind Clifford Sterling (Lloyd Bridges). The film would be followed by one last sequel in 1997, this time a direct-to-video one, ""Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves"". A TV show also followed it in"
"struggling as an actor, Scolari joined the cast of ""Newhart"", opposite Bob Newhart, in 1984, where he played Michael Harris, the yuppie local TV producer, until the series' conclusion in 1990. He has remained close to Newhart, with whom he frequently plays golf, since the show's cancellation. Following central roles in the unsuccessful series ""Family Album"" and ""Dweebs"", Scolari spent three seasons playing inventor Wayne Szalinski, a role originated on film by Rick Moranis, in the of the Disney film """". He later had a recurring role as the father of Lena Dunham's character on HBO's ""Girls"", for which he"
"for a successful test. The kids are then returned to their normal sizes and reunited with their parents. Months later, at Thanksgiving, the Szalinskis and Thompsons, now close friends, are toasting over an enlarged turkey. Russ Jr. and Amy are apparently dating now, while Ron and Nick are friends, and Quark is eating from an enlarged Alpo bone. Nick finally gets a joke that Russ Jr. told him about learning CPR in ""French"" class, at which he laughs. The project was originally brought to Disney Studios by Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna. Gordon was hired to direct the film and"
"tall and had been wandering through Las Vegas, Diane Szalinski, who was the wife of Wayne Szalinski and mother of Adam, asked her husband to enlarge her so she can hug Adam and prevent Hendrickson from harming her son. As she was exposed to electrical waves, Diane became a 120 foot tall giantess, but later returns to her normal size with her son Adam at her side. In ""Dude, Where's My Car?"", five nubile female characters morph into an extraterrestrial 20 foot tall giantess played by Jodi Ann Paterson (Playboy Playmate of the Year 2000) who picks up one of"
"scientist named Joseph Jaworsky (Tor Johnson), who defects and flees to a Nevada Test Site called Yucca Flats, only to be turned into a mindless monster by atomic radiation, stalking the desert. The film has very little dialogue and most of the speech is done by omniscient narration. Some critics have characterized the film as one of the worst science fiction horror films made, and one of the all-time worst films of any kind, even suggesting that it may be worse than Ed Wood's legendarily bad ""Plan 9 from Outer Space"". In 1995, the television comedy series ""Mystery Science Theater"
"Reynolds' request, they rush her to Dr. Steve Hendricks (Harry Jackson) at the California Medical Research Institute in Los Angeles. He later reports that Ginny is slowly turning to stone; her only hope lies with identifying the black rock within eight hours. Dave brings a fragment to his old college professor, Arthur Flanders (Trevor Bardette), who determines that it came from a meteorite. Back at the Simpson farm, both men notice a discoloration in the ground: The black rock is draining something from everything it touches, including people. Later, tests show that silicon is that substance; in humans it is"
"My Science Project My Science Project is a 1985 American comedy science fiction film directed by Jonathan R. Betuel. Although not performing as well, the movie follows on heels of other teen-sci-fi/comedy films released the same year, such as ""Back to the Future"", ""Real Genius"", and ""Weird Science"". In 1957, the United States military secures a crashed UFO in a hangar bay. President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Robert Beer) enters to see the craft and simply orders his men to ""get rid of it."" In 1985, a high school senior named Michael Harlan (John Stockwell), whose only interest is muscle cars,"
"normal size. Wayne has moved the family to Nevada and still invents things. The Szalinski's have a new baby boy, Adam, who is now two years old. Amy is leaving for college and Diane helps her get settled into her dorm, and Nick (Robert Oliveri) is going crazy over a girl at school named Mandy (Keri Russell) despite her not noticing. While Wayne is at work, Adam is accidentally zapped by a machine in his lab. Everywhere there is an Electro-Magnetic Flux, he soon grows bigger and bigger and soon heads to the neon lights of Las Vegas. Mandy the"
"THE SAINT. That one was really set up for it. I’ve got a great outline for that one- more fun characters and situations like cold fusion, that aren’t so science fiction as they were 20 years ago. This could be a lot of fun.’’ Willow (film) Willow is a 1988 American high fantasy film directed by Ron Howard, produced and with a story by George Lucas, and starring Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh, and Billy Barty. Davis plays the eponymous lead character and hero: a reluctant farmer who plays a critical role in protecting a special baby"
"the co-founder of the Warsaw Zoo, and served as its director for a decade from 1929 until the German invasion of Poland in 1939. He also taught geography at the private Kreczmar Secondary """". In 1937 Żabiński supervised the birth of ""Tuzinka"", the 12th elephant ever born in captivity. After the liberation of Poland in 1945, he soon resumed his position of the Warsaw Zoo director, and served there until March 1951. For his Holocaust rescue, he was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta with the Star, by President Lech Kaczyński in 2008. His wife"
"Unidentified Flying Oddball Unidentified Flying Oddball (UK title: The Spaceman and King Arthur) is a 1979 film adaptation of Mark Twain's ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"", directed by Russ Mayberry and produced by Walt Disney Productions. Subsequently re-released in the United States under the title A Spaceman in King Arthur’s Court, the film stars Dennis Dugan as NASA employee Tom Trimble who unintentionally travels back in time with his look-alike android Hermes. After Trimble’s NASA spacecraft travels faster than the speed of light, it takes him and his android back to King Arthur’s Camelot. They then use their"
"Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (truncated to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids in the show's title sequence) is an American syndicated comic science fiction sitcom based on the 1989 film, ""Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"". It expands upon the original film's concept of a shrinking experiment gone wrong to include a myriad of experiments gone awry. It debuted in syndication on September 1, 1997 and ran for three consecutive seasons, concluding with the 66th episode on May 20, 2000. Peter Scolari took over the role of Wayne Szalinski, the"
"a flamethrower in a botched attempt to incinerate their would-be superhuman saviors. After the robot Syndrome is congealed by Frozone, Mickey and Minnie are finally liberated, the Walt Disney World Resort is restored to its former glory, and the Incredibles become Mickey and Minnie's newest friends. Minnie was first voiced by Walt Disney, who was also the original voice of Mickey Mouse. Marjorie Ralston, a Disney inker who joined the animation team as Disney's thirteenth employee, voiced her in the 1929 short ""Wild Waves"", but did not further pursue the role out of shyness. Then, from 1930 until 1939, she"
"occasion as a more sympathetic character. Unidentified Flying Oddball Unidentified Flying Oddball (UK title: The Spaceman and King Arthur) is a 1979 film adaptation of Mark Twain's ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"", directed by Russ Mayberry and produced by Walt Disney Productions. Subsequently re-released in the United States under the title A Spaceman in King Arthur’s Court, the film stars Dennis Dugan as NASA employee Tom Trimble who unintentionally travels back in time with his look-alike android Hermes. After Trimble’s NASA spacecraft travels faster than the speed of light, it takes him and his android back to King"
"time they may ever see Joy and Jess. After escaping for hours through the desert, they come across Dr. Dan Chilblains (Bo Brundin) in Pomona, California. Willie has passed out, but the doctor fixes up his wound, and discovers that Frank has glomerulonephritis, which will eventually kill him. Chilblains has invented a procedure that can freeze a human being without killing him, and convinces Frank to let him freeze them both until Frank can be treated for kidney disease – maybe even get a new kidney (a procedure that is not widely known in 1962) – and to hide them"
"""Daedalus; or, Science and the Future"", which used the Greek myth of Daedalus to symbolise the coming revolution in genetics; Haldane predicted that humans would control their own evolution through directed mutation and in vitro fertilisation. Cloning was explored further in stories such as Poul Anderson's 1953 ""UN-Man"". Cloning is a recurring theme in science fiction films like ""Jurassic Park"" (1993), ""Alien Resurrection"" (1997), ""The 6th Day"" (2000), ""Resident Evil"" (2002), """" (2002) and ""The Island"" (2005). The process of cloning is represented variously in fiction. Many works depict the artificial creation of humans by a method of growing cells"
"Nick (Robert Oliveri). Marcia Strassman portrays his wife, Diane, to whom he delivers the titular line. Matt Frewer, Kristine Sutherland, Thomas Wilson Brown, and Jared Rushton star as Russ, Mae, Russ Jr., and Ron Thompson, the Szalinskis' next door neighbors. The film became an unexpected box office success, grossing in excess of $222 million worldwide, and became the highest-grossing live-action Disney film ever, a record it held for five years. It was met with positive reviews from both critics and audiences, who praised the story, visuals and innovation. Its success spawned two sequels ""Honey, I Blew Up the Kid"" in"
"corn is used as feed for poultry and swine. Lysine is industrially produced by microbial fermentation, from a base mainly of sugar. Genetic engineering research is actively pursuing bacterial strains to improve the efficiency of production and allow lysine to be made from other substrates. The 1993 film ""Jurassic Park"" (based on the 1990 Michael Crichton novel of the same name) features dinosaurs that were genetically altered so that they could not produce lysine. This was known as the ""lysine contingency"" and was supposed to prevent the cloned dinosaurs from surviving outside the park, forcing them to be dependent on"